Posted by chancegardinner on 05/27/07 20:40

Thanks for the replies. It is the referrer.

I use a local proxy server called Proxomitron that alllows you to
strip or replace anything in the html of the webpage or anything in
the header. I use it mainly to remove the no cache tags.

There is a prewritten rule in Proxomitron that will strip the
referer or there is an option to substitute a URL of your own as the
referring address. I don't know what a referrer tag should look like.
What is the format for a referrer tag in the header?

In reading up on referrers, I found this site:
http://www.garthgillespie.com/tools/iterator.php

It seems to act as a proxy server referrer spoofer. If you plug in the
address of the .jpg, it returns this URL which will then retrieve the
"real" pic from the server:

http://www.garthgillespie.com/tools/refspoof.php?ref=&url=http://www.oceancitycam.com/images/board1.jpg

This is only for my own web browsing and enlightenment. I have
bookmarked an assortment of pics (like Piccadilly Circus and Times
Square) that I like to open in full screen views in my browser. I am
not trying to steal bandwidth by putting others' pics on a webpage.




> The site checks for the referrer. When I turn off referrers in my
> Firefox, I only ever see the ersatz imagehttp://www.oceancitycam.com/images/hotlink.jpeg, even within their main
> page. I must have referrers enabled, and I must be accessing the
> board1.jpg image via their site. They're doubtless enforcing this with
> .htaccess files.
>
> See, for example,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotlinkandhttp://altlab.com/htaccess_tutorial.html.
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